North Carolina

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• SOURCE: Asheville Citizen-Times
  12/11/2020
  

  What Was the Dixie Highway, Anyway?

  Historian Tammy Ingram discusses the Dixie Highway, about which she wrote the book, as a rare project of early 20th-century highway building and tourism development that was completed. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  12/8/2020
  

  Even if Georgia Turns Blue, North Carolina may not Follow

  by Michael Bitzer and Virginia Summey

  North Carolina's politics have long been characterized by a competition between fairly evenly balanced forces of conservatism and moderation. Democrats who hope to permanently tip the state in their favor are likely to be disappointed. 

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• SOURCE: New York Review of Books
  11/9/2020
  

  An American Pogrom (Review)

  by David W. Blight

  David W. Blight reviews a new book on the 1898 Wilmington massacre and the violent overthrow of multiracial democracy in North Carolina. 

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• SOURCE: Charlotte Observer
  10/26/2020
  

  In Battleground North Carolina, Donald Trump Is Taking Jesse Helms’s Last Stand

  Donald Trump's chances in North Carolina depend on whether he can successfully deploy the politics of white resentment mastered by the state's longtime senator Jesse Helms. 

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• SOURCE: Greensboro News & Record
  10/6/2020
  

  'This is What We Support': Nearly 41 Years Later, City Apologizes for Greensboro Massacre

  The Greensboro Police Department knew through informants that the Ku Klux Klan and American Nazi Party planned to attack a 1979 anti-Klan march of the Communist Workers Party, but neither warned the marchers nor stopped the violence. Five marchers were killed and none of the attackers were convicted of crimes.

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• SOURCE: Racist Roots: Origins of North Carolina's Death Penalty
  10/5/2020
  

  “The Death Penalty Is Another Confederate Monument We Must Tear Down.”

  A collaborative project examines the history of capital punishment in North Carolina, beginning with an introduction by death penalty litigator Henderson Hill. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  9/1/2020
  

  Roanoke’s ‘Lost Colony’ Was Never Lost, New Book Says

  Historians Malinda Maynor Lowery and Lauren McMillan discuss the evidence behind a new book's claim that the "lost" inhabitants of the Roanoke colony were absorbed by the Croatoan indigenous people of the area. 

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• SOURCE: CNN
  8/20/2020
  

  UNC Fiasco Reveals Truth About Reopening Colleges

  by David M. Perry

  University administrations need to be more transparent and accountable for how they are handling reopening under COVID. 

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• SOURCE: The Bitter Southerner
  8/4/2020
  

  Somebody Died, Babe: A Musical Coverup of Racism, Violence & Greed

  by Kevin Kehrberg & Jeffrey A. Keith

  The song "Swannanoa Tunnel" has been changed through generations of recordings by white musicians, concealing its origins as a song sung by Black convict-lease laborers who were forced to work in deadly conditions, often as punishment for minor crimes (or no crimes at all). 

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• SOURCE: History.com
  7/28/2020
  

  How the Greensboro Four Sit-In Sparked a Movement

  Scholars including Jeanne Theoharis and Will Guzmán describe the roots and impact of the 1960 Woolworth sit-ins in Greensboro, North Carolina. 

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• SOURCE: ABC11 (NC)
  7/23/2020
  

  North Carolina Committed Genocide Against Black People from 1958-1968, Duke Researchers Say

  "When you use the term genocide, it really brings home the fact that this isn't just over reproductive behavior, it's really about eliminating a group of people," said a co-author of the study.

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• SOURCE: TIME
  7/1/2020
  

  The 1898 Wilmington Massacre Is an Essential Lesson in How State Violence Has Targeted Black Americans

  by David Zucchino

  The coup was the natural outgrowth of North Carolina’s – and America’s – long history of relying on white police to perpetuate white supremacy amid fears of Black uprisings.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/26/2020
  

  Racist Violence in Wilmington’s Past Echoes in Police Officer Recordings Today

  by Crystal R. Sanders

  Wilmington, North Carolina police officers who spoke eagerly about the chance to kill black protesters evoke the history of a violent white supremacist coup against the city's biracial government during Reconstruction.

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• SOURCE: Charlotte Observer
  6/16/2020
  

  NC Lawmaker Blasts Black Lives Matter, Calls Protesters ‘Thugs’ And ‘Vermin’

  Republican Rep. Larry Pittman of Cabarrus County had earlier compared Abraham Lincoln to Adolf Hitler and urging public hangings for doctors performing abortions. 

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• SOURCE: Daily Tar Heel
  5/10/2020
  

  Commission on History, Race and a Way Forward Hears from UVA Leaders, Looks Ahead

  A commission at the University of North Carolina looked to the University of Virginia for guidance on reckoning with the institution's historical involvement with slavery and the Confederacy.  

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• SOURCE: Raleigh News & Observer
  5/3/2020
  

  UNC Historian Says NC Reopened Too Soon During 1918 Pandemic. Don’t Let That History Repeat.

  UNC history professor James Leloudis has studied how the global 1918 influenza pandemic tore through North Carolina.

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• SOURCE: News Observers
  2/5/20
  

  Born a slave, John Hunter lived to be 112. Then NC historian Ernest Dollar found his family.

  With luck and the internet, City of Raleigh Museum Director Ernest Dollar rescued him from wills buried in the state archive, articles printed in newspapers that no longer exist and a single line from the 1870 census.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  11/20/19
  

  Confederate Statue in North Carolina Comes Down After 112 Years

  The statue’s removal came after months of “high emotions, division and even violence” in the small town of Pittsboro, a county official said.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  4/8/19
  

  2 Arrested in Vandalism of Slave Memorial at University of North Carolina

  The memorial is dedicated to slaves and African-American workers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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• SOURCE: News Observer
  4/2/19
  

  ‘Never again.’ NC lawmakers consider requiring that the Holocaust be taught in schools.

  “The survivors are leaving us and along with their departures, we need to make sure that we live up to the mantra of ‘Never again,’” said Richard Schwartz, vice chairman of the N.C. Council on the Holocaust.